arket has to announced the creation of a Saturday Community Market. The Community Market will be held the first Saturday of each month, May through October, at the Centertown Pavilion on the corner of Washington and Center Street from 8 a.m. to noon.

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The Bedford Bulletin is offering you the chance to say what you like best in our sixth annual Readers’ Choice Awards. Winners will be announced in the June 24 edition.

There has been a hardware store at the corner of South Bridge Street and Washington Street for more than a century.

The building was built in 1897 and it originally was called Burks-Ramsey Supply. It was a different business in many ways back then. The Bedford Hardware name came in the late 1940s. Burks-Ramsey sold the 1897 versions of many of the items Bedford Hardware sells today. But the store also sold plow parts and wagon wheels.

Thaxton’s PTA members thought it would be a good idea to open up Thaxton Elementary School to former students so they could come and see it one last time while it was still a school.

Thaxton, along with Body Camp Elementary, will close at the end of the current school year.
“We thought people would enjoy going back through the building as a school,” said Theresa Pollard, a PTA member.

Hot on the heels of hugely successful cross country and indoor track seasons, local athletes are heating up the outdoor tracks as well as their accompanying fields.
You may recall that last autumn, the Jefferson Forest cross country lasses earned a State championship in convincing style.

Bedford Town Council continued to wrestle with the possibility of raising real estate taxes last week.
Town Council had earlier asked Town Manager Charles Kolakowski to rework a budget that originally called for a five cent increase in the real estate tax rate and a 4 percent increase in the electric rate. Kolakowski came back with a budget that contains a two cent real estate tax rate and that’s the rate that was advertised.
Some members of Council were still uncomfortable with a tax hike.

Jefferson Forest High School (JFHS) will be able to raise funds to install artificial turf on its football field, now that a surface has been agreed upon.
The school board voted 4-3 to grant the permission, using crumb rubber as an infill. District 2 school board member Jason Johnson, District 4 school board member Dr. John Hicks and District 6 school board member Kelly Harmony cast the dissenting votes.